No Wild West legend ever had a better, more enduring big-screen canonization than Butch Cassidy. Paul Newman as Butch? Robert Redford as his sidekick? …
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How Billy the Kid Really Died
What's the real story behind the death of outlaw Billy the Kid? Did Sheriff Pat Garrett really kill him? We investigate the truth about Billy the Kid and other icons of the Wild West.
In June of 1892, Robert Ford was managing a dance hall in the town of Creede, Colorado. He'd come down in the world, but was still dressed to the …
Lincoln County, New Mexico Sheriff Pat Garrett would later claim that on the night he shot down Billy the Kid, the notorious outlaw was holding a gun. …
In the canon of the Wild West, you can't separate Wyatt Earp from "Doc" Holliday. They go together like guns and holsters. Whiskey and shot glasses. …
Wyatt Earp was a lawman, a gambler, a lover of prostitutes, a buffalo hunter, a saloon keeper, a miner, a boxing referee, maybe a bordello keeper …
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